asterisk users - Nov 2003 - Dialup Internet through Asterisk server?

Hello,

I was wondering if it was easy to setup a dialup internet account system in
Asterisk somehow(like PPP)

laptop with modem -> PSTN line -> Asterisk server -> Server's
broadband
internet connection

Has anyone done this?

Thanks,

MATT---

Matt,

Of course it is possible, PPP server on Linux for remote access is
simple and so difficult to implement, and it has nothing to do with
Asterisk. 

You have to deal with Linux config for PPP in order to setup dialup
server. 
If you need some assistance let me know, I can point you to some
resources on Net.

Regards,
Alexander


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Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 7:08 PM
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Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Dialup Internet through Asterisk server?

Hello,

I was wondering if it was easy to setup a dialup internet account system
in
Asterisk somehow(like PPP)

laptop with modem -> PSTN line -> Asterisk server -> Server's
broadband
internet connection

Has anyone done this?

Thanks,

MATT---
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On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 18:07, mattf wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I was wondering if it was easy to setup a dialup internet account system in
> Asterisk somehow(like PPP)
> 
> laptop with modem -> PSTN line -> Asterisk server -> Server's
broadband
> internet connection
> 
> Has anyone done this?
No it wouldn't be easy, and it would be nearly impossible as there is no
modem software in asterisk right now. There has been a peice of code
released that lets you send and receive faxes, but it has a 9600 speed
limitation due to patents. So without connecting to a modem bank or just
modems hanging off of extensions, you won't have anything that would
connect you to a data connection.

Small caveat here is that there is ZapRas, but it is for PRI connections
and will allow a pure 64K ISDN call to be connected to PPP. As a side
note, ZapRas could be used as a example glue to pass audio data on to a
linmodem software properly plumbed to accept audio in pipes.
-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch@basesys.com>